Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus is a large snowy land map whose usable continent occupies the middle of a much wider cliff field. Players begin opposite one another about 95 meters from the center. A raised summit breaks the direct route between them, but four ramps make the high ground crossable rather than sealing it off.

Four smaller cliffs complicate the mainland lanes, while as many as six relic sites extend beyond the continent edge on raised approaches. Food, long-term Gold, and both expansion tiers spread around the summit instead of occupying it, so scouting the routes between high ground matters more than the map's raw size suggests.

Treat the summit as a four-door crossroads. Holding a ramp can shorten your own reinforcement line, but the outer mainland and relic approaches keep alternate routes open for raids and counter-movement.

The map first forms one snowy, grass-flecked continent across 60% of the field. Everything beyond its cliff edge remains a broad impassable massif. Ordinary land units stay on the continent except where purpose-built relic approaches carry them out to isolated shrines.

At the exact center, a 32-meter radius-equivalent summit rises above the mainland. Its outline varies, but it always receives four ramps. In a normal match the plateau holds a Temple of the Gods with six torches on a 16-meter ring, making the summit a visible landmark as well as a movement gate.

Summit, interior cliffs, and relic approaches · Standard 1v1 example Click to enlarge

The overhead shows one accepted summit shape and set of outer approaches. The stable structure is a four-ramp center inside a cliff-bounded continent; individual ramp headings, cliff outlines, shrine platforms, and approach curves change with the seed.

Standard 1v1 attempts two smaller cliffs on each player's side, four total. Each covers 75–100 tiles and independently has an even chance to rise 5–10 height units or drop 15 units. None receives a ramp, so armies must route around these obstacles.

Interior cliffs stay 25 meters from the summit, the continent edge, and one another, and 20 meters from buildings. That spacing prevents one solid wall but leaves changing corridors between bases, summit ramps, expansion sites, and the outer relic approaches. Four much larger corner mountains remain outside the playable continent and do not add another cross-map route.

There are no fixed cliff-layout names. The macro structure stays recognizable, but the useful lane in one seed can become a longer bend around raised or sunken terrain in the next.

A successful normal Standard 1v1 layout contains 15,500–23,500 initial finite Food, with 19,375 expected. The total includes goats at their initial value and excludes the separate wolf-or-bear predator layer.

Opening and close food

Far hunt, berries, and goats

The far species roll is shared across both players, and the close deer use one shared group-size roll, so the food count stays even even when its locations differ. Later hunt and berries stay outside tower vision, settlement space, the summit, and the raised relic routes; their 50-meter spacing spreads the economy across several lanes.

Ten to twenty-two goats appear across the map. They hold 500–1,100 Food initially, 775 expected, or 3,000–6,600 when fully fattened. The later goat rolls are independent, so both the number of groups and the animals in each group can change.

Predators

From 80 meters outward, each player can receive one or two groups of wolves or bears. The shared 50/50 species roll and the group-size rolls produce 500–2,000 dangerous predator Food, 1,125 expected. Predators stay 80 meters from every start and remain separate from dependable hunt.

Mount Olympus uses a custom snowy forest mix rather than one uniform tree. Snow pines, green pines, and dead pines appear in a 4:2:1 weighting with snowy plants and small rocks beneath them, so forest silhouettes and working edges vary from camp to camp.

The thirty-four accessible forests stay 26 meters apart and outside Town Centers and farm-capable settlement space. Edge forests also keep 15 meters from the smaller cliffs, while the starting and mainland layers preserve room around impassable ground and relic approaches. Starting stragglers and ten scattered pines add local Wood.

Do not count the forested outer mountains as banked Wood. Forty small forest areas are deliberately placed beyond ordinary land access, and area size does not reveal a fixed tree count or Wood total for the accessible layers.

A successful layout contains 54,000–66,000 Gold, with 60,000 expected. Each player has one 3,000-Gold starting mine, but the other 48,000–60,000 Gold lies beyond the opening reserve on the playable continent.

Later mines stay 50 meters apart, at least 10 meters outside the summit, and clear of tower vision, expansion space, 40-meter corners, and the raised relic approaches. The long-term Gold therefore occupies the mainland routes around Olympus rather than the summit or the outer shrine platforms.

Each player can receive two symmetric expansion settlements. The first sits 60–80 meters away with a backward lean; the second reaches 80–120 meters with an aggressive lean. Both preserve farm space, avoid tower vision and impassable terrain, and the farther tier also avoids the map edge.

Their final lanes are not fixed to a particular summit ramp or relic approach. One seed can give a clean rearward economic anchor and a contested forward site; another can make the same distance tiers approach different sides of an interior cliff. Securing a settlement therefore means checking its exits around Olympus, not just its distance home.

Mount Olympus can place three relic sites per player, six total. The paired sites begin at least 60 meters from every start and remain 60 meters apart. Unlike ordinary resources, they sit just beyond the main continent's cliff edge rather than on the mainland itself.

Each accepted site receives a small raised platform with a relic and shrine, then a 20-meter-wide raised approach to the nearest suitable mainland point. The platform covers 250–300 tiles, while the route endpoint keeps 16 meters from impassable terrain and 20 meters from buildings.

Relic control pulls armies toward the continent edge. The six approach curves and their mainland endpoints vary, so a shrine may extend a useful flank in one seed and terminate behind an awkward cliff route in another.